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Pure Appl. Chem., Vol. 70, No. 11,
pp. 2143, 1998
Information systems and biodiversity databases:
Trends and challenges*
Thomas Duncan
Museum Informatics Project, Information Systems and Technology,
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: During the last five years
there has been an explosive growth of Internet information resources
on biodiversity. However, biodiversity information systems have
only begun to utilize the wide array of networked technologies currently
available. Trends in World Wide Web (WWW) tools and services, multi-tier
client server architectures, component software development environments,
repository management and maintenance and image presentation will
significantly change the way in which information systems are designed
and implemented. These emerging technologies offer new possibilities
for storing, presenting, and sharing nomenclatural, distributional,
and phylogenetic data that are fundamental to understanding global
biodiversity and tracking changes in it. Biodiversity information
providers and systems developers must address the technical and
institutional challenges such technologies offer and how these technologies
will change the way in which taxonomic, biotic, and phylogenetic
studies are conducted.
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* Invited lecture presented at the International
Conference on Bioversity and Bioresources: Conservation and Utilization,
23-37 November 1997, Phuket, Thailand.
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